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(-No Model.)

A. L. KOTZE. NECK YOKE ATTACHMENT.

No. 443,142. Patented Dec. 23, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALPHONSE L. KOTZE, OF OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY.

N ECK-YOKE ATTACHM ENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 443,142, dated December 23, 1890.

Application filed July 5, 1890. Serial No. 357,918. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALPHONSE L. KoTzE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oklahoma City, Territory of Oklahoma, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Neck-Yokes and Tongue- Tips, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in combined neck-yokes and tongue-tips for wagons, buggies, 850.; and the objects of my improvement are, first, to provide greater safetyin travel, and thereby diminish its dangers; secondly, to diminish the chances of accident, and, thirdly, to prevent the breastyoke from slipping off the tongue while in use. I attain these objects in the manner illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is an elevation of the outer end of a tongue, showing the tip in longitudinal section. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the tip detached. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the neck-yoke center ring. Fig. 4 is a similar view of a modification. Fig. 5 is an elevation of the neck-yoke, with the center ring shown in Fig. 3 attached and with the tongue inserted. Both the tongue-tip and the center rings may be made of either malleable or wrought iron. The pole or tongue cap or tip 1 is made of one piece of metal, similar to the usual tongue-tip, having the shoulder 2 and the stop or lug 3.

4 4 are the rivets or screws by which the tip is secured to the tongue 4.

The center rings 5 of the neck-yoke are preferably formed as shown in Figs. 3 and 5, with the pair of eyes or perforated lugs 6, which receive rings 7 7, whereby the center ring is secured to the neck-yoke 8 by means of staples 9 9 on the yoke, through which the rings 7 7 pass. The center ring (shown in said figures) is oifset at one side to provide a notch or open eye 10. In Fig. 4 the. lugs 6 6 are not employed, but instead the top of the center ring is provided with two ofisets, providing notches or open eyes 11 similar to that at the side of the ring.

The notches or open eyes 10 are placed, as shown, so that they will be, when the parts are combined, at the side of the tongue and not above or below it.

In order to place the neck-yoke properly on the tongue, it will be necessary to hold the neck-yoke in an upright position and then slip the center ring 5 over the tongue tip or cap 1, so that the notch or open eye 10 will slip over the stop 3 and then turn the neckyoke into horizontal position. In this manner, when the parts are combined, it is impossible for the neck-yoke to slip over the tongue. Hence, should the tugs break or any other accident of a similar kind occur, a team cannot escape from the wagon, and besides this, if necessary, a team may have a wagon Without using tugs.

What I claim is- 1. In a neck-yoke attachment, the combination of the pole-tip, constructed of a single piece of metal and provided on its lower side with the stop 2 and the lug 3, and the neckyoke center, constructed of a single piece of metal and being approximately the form of a ring and provided on one side with the inner recess 10 to receive the lugs and allow the center to he slipped on the tip and past the lug, said neck-yoke center being provided at its top with the oppositely-disposed notches or eyes to receive links for attaching the neckyoke center to the neck-yoke, substantially as described.

2. In a neck-yoke attachment, the combination, with a pole-tip having a lug 3, of the neck-yoke center, constructed of a single piece of metal and being approximately the form of a ring and provided on one side with the inner recess 10 to allow the center to be slipped on the tip, said neck-yoke center being provided at its top with the oppositely disposed notches or eyes to receive links for attaching the neck-yoke center to the neckyoke, substantially as described.

ALPHON SE L. KOTZE.

\Vitnesses:

S. M. SUTLIFF, FRANK INcLrs. 

